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MiamiCruiser52

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  1. These are my considered throughts about Regent: Four of us were on a pre-Christmas Splendor cruise in the Carribbean. Overall, my expectations were not met (e.g., cheap included wines that I could by at Target for $15 and which I would never order at a restaurant; spotty food quality and service at the pool grill; very bland excursions). There were a number of pluses: Chartreuse in particular, which was spectacular. Compass Rose was surprisingly good. Service was generally very good throughout the ship, with exceptions. The same group of four are booked on the Bali-Bangkolk cruise in 2023 in Penthouse suites. This will be a very expensive trip for us, particuarly since we built a lengthy vacaton around the cruise beforehand and afterward. Already Hong Kong has been cancelled from the itinerary and now Bangkok is the featured ending port. My wife and I would not have booked the cruise without Hong Kong but now we are stuck (cancelling the entire cruise was not a viable option given our pre- and post-cruise travel plans). The Bangkok hotel in the post-cruise land program is a Sheraton convention hotel that sells for $100 per night. The included tours in Bangkok look like souvenir shopping. Cambodia was also substituted in for a day stop, but the "excursions" are all a half-a-day at a beach. The beach! Really??? I'm 63 and don't need to sunbathe. The itinerary change also created signficant disruptions in our intra-Asia flights. (I did write to Regent twice through its portal to express my dismay. Neither email was answered. I then forwarded my emails to my travel agent who passed them on to someone in Regent sales. Regent's response to the TA -- but not to me -- was "Sorry, there is nothing we can do." Of course, that is not true. Regent could have done something to amerliorate the changes, but it eleced not to and did not even bother to reply to me.) I'm trying to keep an open mind for what should have been a phenomenal cruise and vacation of a lifetime, but, based on my experience on Splendor and the way Regent has handled the Asia itinerary changes, I am girding myself. That is not the mindset I want going into this vacation......
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